The Arizona Cardinals will go with the players they have on the 53-man roster on Sunday in their season opener against the Buffalo Bills. Able to elevate up to two players from the practice squad, they elected not to for Sunday’s game.
Typically, a team will use the practice squad elevations for injury management or special teams roles.
Because the Cardinals are pretty healthy (only receiver Xavier Weaver was ruled out of the game), they have all their roles filled.
Players can be elevated from the practice squad and revert back to it without being subject to waivers only three times. Without having to use that on anyone this week, they have at least one extra week for everyone before that expires.
The Bills elevated two players — center Will Clapp and defensive end Kameron Cline.
Buffalo will be without two defensive ends. Javon Solomon was ruled out on the final injury report on Friday and fellow defensive end Dawuane Smoot, questionable on the injury report Friday, was downgraded to out on Saturday.
The Cardinals and Bills kick off Sunday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. Arizona time).
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